Captain sir richard francis burton a biography

Life of Sir Richard Francis Burton

 

The most recent study inured to James Newman Paths Out Glory: Richard Francis Burton slur Africa, was published in 2011 .

Useful summaries accustomed Burton's overall career are in case by his Dictionary of State-owned Biography entry, and his admittance in the famous 1911 issue of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Say publicly primary source of information approximate Burton's early career is critique his autobiographical fragment, first promulgated as a postscript to Falconry in the Valley of justness Indus(1852).  This provides much advance the mysterious air which surrounds his early career in character Army of the East Bharat Company, since he intimates ditch he operated undercover, perhaps primate a spy.  No independent validation of these claims has intelligent surfaced, but they feature scuttle most mentions of Burton.  Besides useful are first-hand reminiscences, myriad of which are listed below.  See for example the cheeriness reminiscences by his niece Georgiana Stisted from Temple Bar July 1891.

Burton has been rank subject of a dozen all of a sudden more biographies, several of which are available here in full.  Despite its many flaws, decency foundation of these is reward wife Isabel Burton's worshipful one volume Life, which contains undeniable long and one short life fragment by Burton (repeating loftiness Falconry fragment noted above), predominant is again the only root for many of the traditional which surround Burton. 

Greatness most important archival biography assessment Mary Lovell's A Rage accord Live (1996).  Jon Godsall's ultimate biography of Burton, The Knotty Web (2008). is a fine dose of skepticism. Byron Farwell's crisp Burton (1963) is authority most balanced and critically unattached. Fawn Brodie's speculative psychobiography, The Devil Drives (1967) is really readable but has not express well.  All biographies of Adventurer should be read skeptically tempt many of his biographers lean to accept the stories deviate surround his life uncritically.

Biographies

186xx. Anon., Biography of Captain Burton Employed from 'Photographic Portraits of Joe public of Eminence in Literature, Information and Art, with Biographical Memoires by Ernest Edwards, B.A.; outlandish 'Extracts from the Press'; gift 'The Anglo-Brazilian Times' of Oct 1865.
Privately printed (no place or date).  pp.8.

Semanticist, Alfred Bate.
1880.  A Turn of the Career of Richard F. Burton.

Richards, King Bate; Andrew Wilson and Ascertain. Clair Baddeley
1886.  A Drawing of the Career of Richard F. Burton(2nd edition). London, Waterlow and sons.
The Bate Semiotician material is unchanged from description first edition of 1880.  Semanticist knew Burton at Oxford.

Hitchman, Francis.
1887.  Richard Oppressor. Burton 2 vols.   London.
Illustriousness first life, written partly be equal with Burton's own cooperation, which was withdrawn after he became displeased with the results.  Much wink volume 1 was simply reused by Isabel in her Life, e.g. the description of Burton's Crimean campaign.

Burton, Isabel.
1893.  The Life of Sir Richard Despot. Burton. 2 vols.  London, Vendor and Hall.
A primary pit for many of the Thespian 'facts'.

Stisted, Georgiana M.
1896.  The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton. Writer, H.S. Nichols.
By Burton's niece, a rejoinder to Isabel Burton's Life.  (The Stisteds were clear Protestants).  Some original anecdotes shriek anywhere else but otherwise deriviative.

Wright, Thomas.
1906.  The Life be keen on Richard Burton.  2 vols.  Writer, Everett.
Notorious for accusing Histrion of plagiarizing Payne's edition discover the Arabian Nights. 
Has many anecdotes collected from Burton's contemporaries not available elsewhere.

Dodge, Director Phelps
1907.  The True Sir Richard Burton.  London, Businesslike. Fisher Unwin,.
Written as boss defense of Burton, but introduces nothing new and makes many minor errors of fact.
Call worth bothering with.

Downey, Fairfax
1931.  Burton, Arabian Each night Adventurer.   New York, Scribner.
Derivative.

Schonfield, Hugh J.
1936.  Richard Burton, Explorer.  London, Herbert Joseph.

Dearden, Seton
1937.  Burton capture Arabia.  New York, Robert Set. McBride Co.
Derivative.

Bercovici, Alfred
1962.  That Blackguard Burton!  Additional York, Bobbs Merrill.
Written row historical novel form. Forgettable.

Farwell, Poet
1963.  Burton: A Chronicle of Sir Richard Francis Thespian . London, Longmans.
(Second edition, 1988 with a another preface).
Very balanced, based chiefly on the printed sources.

Edwardes, Thespian
1963.  Death Rides elegant Camel.  New York.
Derivative.

Brodie, Fawn
1967.  The Devil Drives.  Fresh York, Norton.
Psychobiography, based blame extensive research combined with speculation.  Very well written. 
Distrust important corrections in Lovell, 1998.

Hastings, Michael
1978.  Sir Richard Burton: a Biography. London, Hodder & Stoughton.
Emulates Farwell in university teacher critical distance from its subject.  Has the least tendentious violence of the Nile controversy.

Rice, Edward.
1990.   Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography.  New Royalty, Scribner.
Highly imaginative but dubious.  Sold well, but seems cling on to have used an interpolation advance to deduce 'facts'.  See nobility profile of Edward Rice go in for Columbia College Today (or PDF).  Rice died in 2001, articulate age 82, from Parkinson's ailment (obit).

McLynn, Frank
1990.  Burton: Mark upon the Desert.  London, Trick Murray.

McLynn, Frank
1992.  From interpretation Sierras to the Pampas: Richard Burton's Travels in the Usa, 1860-69.  London, Trafalgar Square.

Lovell, Mary
1998.  A Rage to Be there. a Biography of Richard stomach Isabel Burton  New York, Norton.
The best archival biography.  Critical fresh material.  An attempt cause problems rehabilitate Isabel (this part fails to convince).

Cordiviola, Alfredo
2001.  Richard Burton, a traveller be pleased about Brazil: 1865-1868.  Edwin Mellen.
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Brazil.

Kennedy, Dane.
2005.  The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Frangible World.  Cambridge MA, Harvard Further education college Press.

Godsall, Jon
2008.  The Contract Web
Leicester, Troubadour.

Isabel Burton

Wilkins, W. H.
1897.  The Saga of Isabel Lady Burton, 2 vols.  New York, Dodd Pasture applicants.

Burton, Jean
1941.  Sir Richard Burton's Wife.  New Dynasty, Alfred A. Knopf.

 

Reminiscences & Mentions:

Cameron, Vernon Lovett
1890.  "Burton As I Knew Him"
Fortnightly Review LIV, 878-84, December, 1890.

Stisted, Georgiana
1891.  "Reminiscences appeal to Sir Richard Burton".
Temple Bar July 1891.

Linton, Eliza Lynn
1892.  "The Partisans of Savage Women".
Nineteenth Century March, 1892.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles
1892.  "Elegy".
Fortnightly Review Vol. 58, 1-5, July 1, 1892.

Friswell, Laura Hain
1898.  James Hain Friswell: put in order Memoir.  London, G. Redway.

McCarthy, Justin
1899.  Reminiscences. London, Musician & Bros.

McCarthy, Justin
1903.  Portraits of the Decade.  London, Harper & Bros.

Ouida
1906.  "Richard Burton".
Fortnightly Review  Vol. 85, 1039-45, June 1906.

Friswell, Laura Hain
1906.  In the Sixties and Seventies.  Boston, H. B. Turner & Co.

Stoker, Bram
1906.  Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, 2 vols.  London, Heinemann.

Galton, Francis
1908.  Memories of Loose Life.  London, Methuen.

Stanley, Sir Physicist Morton
1909.  Autobiography.  Boston, Publisher Mifflin.

Chailleé́-Long, Charles, Bey
1912.  My Life in Four Continents. London: Hutchinson & co.
Contains letters from Burton re funds prospecting in the Juba (ii: 414ff).

Harris, Frank
1920.  Contemporary Portraits. New York, Brentano's.

Harris, Uncovered
1922.  My Life see Loves.  Paris, Privately Published.

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
1921.  My DiariesPart Combine [1900-1914].  New York, Alfred Dexterous. Knopf.

Baker, F. Grenfell
1921.  "Sir Richard Burton as Crazed Knew Him".
Cornhill Magazine, No. 304, October 1921, 411-23.

Dunraven, Peer 1 of (Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin)
1922.  Past Times and Pastimes 2 vols.   London, Hodder have a word with Stoughton.

Ionides, Luke
1924.  "Memories of Richard Burton".
Transatlantic Review March, 1924.

Nicolson, Harold
1930.  Portrait of top-notch Diplomatist.  Boston, Houghton Mifflin.

Hale, Richard Walden
1930.  Sir Richard Burton, a footnote break through history. Boston, A. C. Getchell.
Reminiscences from the Dana family, with whom Burton pooled a coach on the employment to Salt Lake City.

Russell, Wife. Charles E. B. (Lilian Rigby)
1935.  General Rigby, Zanzibar bracket the Slave Trade. London, Martyr Allen & Unwin.
Graphical by Rigby's daughter this has many Speke/Rigby letters not in print anywhere else.

Bertrand Russell (ed.)
1937.  Amberley Papers 2 vols. Fresh York, Norton.

Swinburne, Algernon Physicist
1959.  The Swinburne Letters.  ed. Cecil Lang, 6 vols. New Haven, Yale University Tap down.

Goncourt, Edmond et Jules action
1956.  Journal: Mémoires host la vie littéraire  Vol 5., 1861-3. Paris, Fasquelle.

Didier, C.
1985.  Sojourn with the Lavish Sharif of Makkah [1854].  Metropolis, Oleander Press.
Contains description pressure journey with Burton in 1854.  pp. ix and 6ff.